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Prior to this year’s Cannes Film Festival the director Bennett Miller asserted himself as a major, stealthy talent attuned to minor-key, observant portraits of American success stories with an asterisk, a hidden price tag.

Miller followed his first narrative feature, “Capote,” with “Moneyball.” While “Capote” showcased an utterly transformed Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote, “Moneyball” starred Brad Pitt in a comfortable, easygoing dramatic stretch as Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane. The result was an improbably good story about metrics and statistics and diminished bottom lines.

Now comes a third true story, “Foxcatcher,” the new darling of the 2014...

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